HOTCHKISS, Giles Waldo, a Representative from New York;
born in Windsor, Broome County, N.Y., October 25, 1815;
attended the common schools, Windsor Academy, and Oxford Academy;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1837 and began practice in Binghamton, N.Y.;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1866;
elected to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871);
was not a candidate for renomination;
resumed the practice of law in Binghamton, where he died July 5, 1878;
interment in Spring Forest Cemetery.